Tral protests power tariff ‘hike’; people observe half-day shutdown
Amid a half-day shutdown, people in Tral town staged a protest against the power tariff hike on Thursday.
Most shops in the town remained shut for half a day and the residents assembled in Tral Bala and staged a sit in. They later raised slogans to press for their demands and marched through the town.
The shutdown call was given by the Citizens Council Tral and Traders Federation Tral.
“We are getting inflated bills and people are facing problems. We requested the officials to look into the issue but no one listens to us,” one of the protesters said. However, the Power Development Department denied the allegation of hike in tariff.
